Main Operations

Operation
Poseidon supports
Greece with border surveillance, saving lives at sea, registration and identification
capacities, as well as combatting cross-border crime. The operational area
covers the Greek sea borders with Turkey and the Greek islands.

Frontex supports Greece with almost
600 guest officers, who perform border surveillance, assist in the
identification and registration of incoming migrants, as well as debriefing and
screening.

Operation Poseidon Sea is
increasingly becoming a multipurpose operation covering a number of aspects of
cross border crime including smuggling of illegal substances, weapons,
detection of forged documents and many others. It also covers several coast guard functions such as search and rescue, detection of illegal
fishing and maritime pollution.

Debriefing officers deployed by the
agency collect intelligence about people smuggling networks operating in Turkey
and migrants’ countries of origin. The agency shares this information with the
Greek authorities and Europol.

The agency also assists the Greek
authorities in readmission operations from the hotspots.